Aurora and her adopted sister Pia have grown up at Mission San Carolos de Borromeo. When Aurora is unexpectedly pressured into giving up her teaching position there to become governess at Rancho de Montaraz, the ranch her parents abruptly departed years...

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself...

David was the youngest of all of his siblings and he kept his Dad's sheep but God had a perfect plan to make him King. God said David was a man after His own heart! From the paw of a lion, from the paw of a bear and from the hand of the giant Philistine,...

David was the youngest of all of his siblings and he kept his Dad's sheep but God had a perfect plan to make him King. God said David was a man after His own heart! From the paw of a lion, from the paw of a bear and from the hand of the giant Philistine,...

Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street CollegeA shy young African American boy makes friends in school by letting his classmates help with his drawing of a bare winter tree.One winter day David...

Pum is a loyal old dog who can smell colors. Along with Kwee, a pig with attitude, and seven-year-old Leksi, they tell the story of Mabel. As a young girl of the Dani tribe in Papua, Dutch missionaries take her to the city under the pretense of adopting...

From the award-winning author of The Truth of Right Now comes a "lyrical" (PopSugar), grounded fantasy in the vein of Dread Nation that follows a black teen as she finds her place among a family of women gifted with magical abilities. In the Jim Crow...

Life in the Carribean is often upstaged by murder, witchcraft, corruption and hurricanes. When all four become entwined, the bounty of chaos appears. While the governor of the Virgin Islands laid paralyzed against his will the lives of those disrupted by...

The Chosen One, the first of a three part series is the unimaginable story of Danielle Harrigan. Layered with elements of criminality, witchcraft and romance it highlights the deplorable crime of human trafficking. While Danielle is being held captive on...

Daughter, a penetrating novel by Essence editor asha bandele and chosen by Black Issues Book Review as Best Urban Fiction for 2003, follows a young woman through life that changes in one night from a horrific incident with police brutality. At nineteen,...

Though both gorgeous, the two Rodgers sisters couldn't be more different. Hennesey, a brilliant straight-A student, is soon off to college on a full scholarship. She's in a strong relationship with Rafe, a recently released convict who's trying to turn...

DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling role in African American life and our country's race relations. Rich, flamboyant superstars lend credence to...

W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published Darkwater -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk. Throughout his long...

"One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural...written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." --The New York Times Book Review "Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that...

"You so black..." repeated over and over in Mahogany Brown's mind like the chorus to a sad song, killing her soul, softly. "You so black..." is how the joke begins. When the joke ends, laughter, teasing and bullying follows. Not to mention getting dumped...